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In the proposed “Marriage Amendment,” we are once again witnessing the anti-Christian actions of the Christian Right as they flex and ogle over their political muscles, seeking to institutionalize their religious hatreds against a specific community of taxpaying citizens, based upon their own contrived religious opinions of what love between consenting adults must be in order to be “true” Christians, as defined through the lenses of their own obsessive hatreds.

I’m given an image of Christ weeping before God in the face of such institutionalized religious hatred.

The religious politics of exclusivity deny rights of all the citizens to be free from the religious special interests and their agenda to force their narrow religious opinions upon the entire community. Exclusivity is a social disease propelled by the most Constitutionally-averse of our society. It manifests itself in discrimination and vice by one group of citizens over another. The Religious Right, in their greed and lust for power, is now trying to force its will upon the families and communities of South Carolina. Is this really what South Carolinians want?

We should fear the bedroom watchers and peeping toms of the bedroom police, because if they’re peeking into your neighbor’s bedroom window tonight, they will be peering into yours tomorrow.

What consenting adults do in the privacies of their own bedrooms are not the business of the Religious Right and their thought police who seek to deceive entire communities into focusing their beams of hatred against a targeted group of citizens. Our founding fathers understood this. Thank God for them and our Constitution, which should serve to protect us all from the religious special interests who use God, Christ and the Bible to spread their own obsessive hatreds throughout our communities and into our systems of justice.

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Jupiter (Zeus) - He is the master of the gods and the main god. In his hand he held thunderbolts which he can hurl from the sky.

Juno (Hera) - She is the wife of Jupiter, the goddess of women and fertility. Her symbols are a pomegranate and a peacock.

Mars (Ares) - He is the god of war, the strongest and most fearsome god, except for Jupiter.

Venus (Aphrodite) - She is the goddess of love and beauty.

Minerva (Athena) - She is the goddess of wisdom, learning, art crafts and industry. Her symbol is the owl.

Neptune (Poseidon) - He is the powerful god of the sea. His symbol is the trident.

Ceres - (Demeter) She is the goddess of the harvest, always depicted carrying a bundle of grain.

Vulcan (Hephaestus) - He is the blacksmith of the gods and a god of the underworld. If he stokes his furness too hard volcanos might erupt. He is the god of blacksmiths and volcanos.

Diana (Artemis) - She is the goddess of hunting and a goddess of the moon.

Bacchus (Dionysus) - He is the god of wine and partying! Woo hoo! Naturally, he is one of the most popular gods!

Mercury (Hermes) - He is the messenger of the gods. the wings on his helmet and sandals allow him to travel very quickly to wherever a god might send him. He is the god of travellers and tradesmen.

Vesta (Hestia) - She is the goddess of the hearth and home. In her temple a flame is always kept burning as in the 'hearth of Rome' the flame should never go out.

The above are the main Gods, of course there are numerous other Gods to worship: Apollo, Pluto, Bellona, Juventus, Cupid, Saturn, etc.

You also have "Household Spirits". Every household has its own personal spirits which protect it. The lares are the spirits of the family's ancestors. The penates are kind spirits who guard the larder. Little figurines of these spirits are kept in a small household shrine, called the lararium. The spirits are worshipped by the family on special days. Bits of food or wine might are sacrificed to them.

There is always room though for new Gods and other Religions. We Romans don't tend to think that only our gods are the right ones.

Oh I forgot, this blog is about banning Gay Marriage. Well we Romans aren't big on the idea of same sex marriages, then again we don't think that homosexual behavior is that big a deal. So being the enlightened society that we are, we would probably say: "Hey, knock your socks off ... whatever floats your boat as long as you support the Empire." lol

PS: All of the above, this whole post, is pure bull dung ... I am bull excrementing you. Then again I suspect every post here is full of some feces. ;) ;) ;)

"Fighting Barbarians for over 2000 years" - ALEA IACTA EST - "What we do in life echoes in eternity." - "Way down deep I'm very superficial"

jstrait, you said: "I just KNOW what the truth is." You know what your 'opinion' of the truth is. Your religious opinion is not 'truth,' it's just your opinion. You can play God with it, but that doesn't make it 'truth.'

You said: "BTW, Jehovah Witness's also believe that they are the only true Christians too, as well as the Mormoms, well you get the point." Exactly. So you agree with me...religious opinion is simply that - opinion...and is not 'truth.'

You said: "You, my friend, are the one who is misguided and deceived." There you go ranting judgment based upon your religious opinion.

Then you said: "You seem to have very little knowledge of tithing among many, many other things, but I can clearly see that you are not one to reckon with." A protection racket is a protection racket no matter what you call it. Some call gambling 'entertainment,' but it's still gambling.

You are gambling that your 'tithing' will buy you a ticket into heaven. I have attended Baptist churches and if you don't give enough, they quickly turn their backs upon you. I remember one poor young woman, a mother of three, whose Christian husband abused her badly then left her to fend for herself and her 3 young children, without paying his child support. I understand this is a very familiar story in the hallowed halls of Christian marriage (and all of us taxpayers have to pick up the costs of all these social failures), but at church, in order to keep in good standing with the congregation, she sat near the front and had to fan her 3 brand new bills before placing them in the collection (shake-down) basket that was being passed by the tax collectors of the church...all so that the congregation would know that she was still paying her protection money to the church.

It was really pathetic, and after the Preacher's wife, who wore designer clothes and makeup, insisted out loud (as she shoved food in her mouth)at a Saturday night function that everyone give their monies now rather than wait a week (all services were being cancelled because of heavy snows), we didn't have much concern for the materialism that is prominent in the Baptist churches and their 'tithings' and shakedowns for Jesus. Jesus must be just rolling over in his tomb at the hypocrisies, deceit and hatred of the modern Christian political leaders and their systems of deception.

"Therefore; I will just say to you "Go in peace and have a super day!!!"" "Go in peace" implies a holier-than-thou intimation and thereby self-righteousness because it is a religiously-based reference, but I hope you have a nice day, too. By the way, what is "JMHO"

No other "domestic" union is valid & legal. It does not impair rights or benefits of this state extended by this satte not arising from other domestic unions nor does the amendment prohibit private parties from entering into contracts or other legal instruments.

Do you know the wait for a divorce in this State? I do. Do you know the total ineffectiveness of the law enforcement arm of collections as it pertains to child support?

Count your self lucky, my friend, you won't have to suffer the nightmares the 'straights' do. Do it in a binding legal contract outside of family court. Keep it in the Court of

South Carolina Code of Law. And as you are aware, there is pending legislation creating a 'person' for the purposes of prosecution. This protects the mother in the event of the death of her child.

The father has nothing. Not one word to say in life and death decisions of his unborn baby UNLESS the following 3 criteria are met in full and this has never been test-cased:

Married, Cohabitating, 3rd trimester.

Each and every one of you married or not could have lost a child and never even know it. Or maybe you do and it has pierced your very soul. For that I am terribly sorry. I had no idea. Now I do.

We count as members pro-life, and pro-choice. We are NOT dealing with abortion, we are dealing with consent. Everyone should have a say. We have a list of exclusions to the amendment and if you would like to join our group, you would be free to explore what we have looked at, including a sickening case we took on in Beaufort. We were the only "Father's Rights" group that would speak to the family. I had never considered us Father's Rights, until the family called us such. I was proud that we took this case and ran with it.

Have both come out of the closet. One in Ohio, one in South Carolina. I yelled at them both: "Are you NUTS!" Ohio and South Carolina are two of the MOST conservative states in the onion, I mean Union.

I told them both, you need to move to Hotlanta, LA, New York, Providence, anywhere but HERE! I love them both. They will never be happy where they are. You need to find your people, I told them, and they aint here.

One thing the Marriage Amendment has done is increased voter turnout, here in South Carolina. MA, CA, CT, NY it would do the same, perhaps with the opposite effect.

I am saying this because politics and votes fascinate me and I have studied voting patterns in this county and state for more than 20 years. I love you Gregory as my brother. I would love to have a cup of coffee and discuss what we can do together to make society more tolerant. Do what you like privately, as we all do. But don't expect a stamp of approval from the people of South Carolina. Law knows I cant even get it for what seems to me to be a no-brainer.

So a woman could be forced to carry a pregnancy after which the father may abandon her and the child leaving her with little recourse in the family courts "where you have no rights. No wait. That's women." to obtain child-support. How is this keeping government out of our lives?

I don't believe people should have to move to "Hotlanta" or Providence (Providence?) to have a shot at happiness.

Your friends don't have to go to Atlanta to find their people. Savannah is closer Lol! Gosh I thought the south was chock full of gay people by maybe not percentage wise nowthat everybody from Ohio has moved here!

I don't get this other stuffwith the abortion amendment. Wouldn't it be kind of hard to enforce an abandonment clause?

He will sign in a heartbeat if she wants an abortion and he wants NO CHILD. If he doesn't want to be a father and she wants the baby, he will support the baby its entire 'minor' life. That is the law. Men in this country are paying support on children that are not even theirs.

The mother signs a consent form to abortion in every case. What we propose is to have the father sign as well. If she wants baby, she not only gets baby, but he WILL support that baby.

Now if she opts for one of the exclusions, and lies about it, aint nothin he can do. But we are looking at baby steps here, literally. If she says she has been abandoned, there is no proof in time to stop the procedure. By the time he finds out about it, it will be way too late.

Our hope is that she would actually ask the father if he wants the baby. If yes, she TPRs and he is the responsible party. In this state today, if he wants his baby, IT CAN AND WILL be adopted out from under him, NO MATTER!

It has happened. A LOT.

So if she wants an abortion and he does not, tuff luck, daddy, you have no rights.

Gabriel, you said "One thing the Marriage Amendment has done is increased voter turnout, here in South Carolina. MA, CA, CT, NY it would do the same, perhaps with the opposite effect. I am saying this because politics and votes fascinate me and I have studied voting patterns in this county and state for more than 20 years....don't expect a stamp of approval from the people of South Carolina. Law knows I cant even get it for what seems to me to be a no-brainer."

I understand...just look at the voting being done like sheep being led to the slaughter.

I agree that SC was Democratic stronghold up until the 1960s. It wasn't a party thing as much as a conservative thing. We would vote for Democratic conservatives on a local and state level and then vote for a conservative Republican on the national level.

The Democrats began a more liberal agenda nationally and locally in the 1960s and many southern voters began voting Republican. Republican candidates recognized that the south was heavily conservative and began publishing their conservative agendas. For a long while, we assumed that any Republican fielded would have a conservative view and that all Democrats would have a liberal view.

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